Monthly Archives: June 2016

Chronicle of the manifestation at the prison of Soto del Real (Madrid), where the comrade arrested on the 13th of April is imprisoned.

Last weekend a group of comrades travelled to the Soto del Real prison in Madrid in order to break the isolation they want to impose on the anarchist that was arrested on the 13th of April, and to show the prison institution that neither she nor any imprisoned fighter is alone in front of the State. The manifestation, although we were not many, was a success; the comrade has told us she could hear the voice and noise of the people, effacing for a moment the silence they went to impose on her surroundings. A brief chronicle of the manifestation:

This Saturday, the 25th of June, some thirty people held a manifestation in front of the Soto del Real prison (Madrid) to show their rejection of imprisonment and of the extradition of the comrade arrested on the 13th of April, accused of the expropriation of a bank in Germany.

They shouted in solidarity with the prisoners and against penitentiary centres, they read a text in solidarity with the comrade and another in which the situation of imprisoned women was explained. At the same time, they lit fireworks, necessary to transgress the walls with noise and thus breaking the imposed distance between those inside and those outside.

During the manifestation some cops of the Guardia Civil appeared who asked for identification of the people present, which they refused. Despite this, the act ended with a repressive strike; the agents of authority stopped every car that headed for the exit, registering the cars and forcing identification.

Let’s not forget that this Thursday 30th of June the comrade will definitely be extradited and put at the disposition of the German authorities. All this, after having received numerous abuses by the direction of the penitentiary centre of Soto del Real, such as denying her the possibility of maintaining vis-a-vis communication with her partner on the day of her wedding or the prohibition concerning telephone contact with her and another person.

Let’s extend the solidary and rebellious expressions.

DOWN WITH THE PRISON WALLS!!
WALLS AND GUARDS, YOU WILL NOT SILENCE OUR PASSION FOR FREEDOM!!

Since a few days, the anarchist comrade imprisoned in Soto del Real since the 13th of April has been the target of various abuses by the prison direction. Under the pretext of “security reasons” she has not only been denied the possibility of having vis-a-vis communication with her partner on the day of her wedding, but she has also been prohibited from having any telephone contact with her partner and one other person. Moreover, the assistant director of the prison has imposed on her different types of disciplinary measures for – according to him – “inciting mutiny” among the other prisoners in the isolation ward, and another measure as punishment for talking to other prisoners during the night.

We understand that all these punishments are retaliations for the comrade’s combative attitude and her solidarity; despite the distance and isolation she has continued to be determined in participating in the fights on the street, sending a message of support to the Banc Expropriat in Gràcia, and a card in which she reaffirmed her convictions and political practices of struggle against the State and the capitalist system.

From the point of view of us who are on the streets, all these attempts to silence and isolate her could only be thrown back through a multiplication of the manifestations of solidarity and efforts to diffuse and spread her words for which they want to punish her even more. Let’s also not forget that soon the deadline for her stay in the Soto del Real prison in Madrid will come to an end and it is expected that she will be extradited to Germany on June 30.

Let’s not permit they silence the voice of imprisoned fighters!
Let’s break the circle in which they try to isolate our comrades!
Spread the word! Take to the streets! Participate in the call-outs! Act!

LAST MINUTE: The Audiencia Nacional has ordened the extradition of the comrade arrested on the 13th of April! Call out for MANIFESTATION!

The sadly famous – because reactionary –judge Ángela Murillo has ordened the extradition to Germany of the comrade imprisoned on the 13th of April, accused of having participated in the expropriation of a bank in the city of Aachen. The extradition could take place any moment within the next 10 days.

As you already know, the comrade was arrested last April during a policial macro-operation in which the social centre Los Blokes Fantasma and two other houses were raided and searched, because of an international order that was sent from Germany. The prosecution office of the city of Aachen ascribes to her the material authorship of a robbery that took place two years ago, of a bank that is connected to the catholic church, where a notable sum of money was taken without causing any personal harm. The prosecution office investigated this action within a supposed series of similar expropriations that happened the year before in this city. Within this investigation an anarchist comrade from Amsterdam has also been imprisoned, who is currently outside awaiting her courtcase after having spent several months in preventive arrest.

Despite having sent a call out for a manifestation on the day following the announcement of the extradition, but because of the struggle for the recuparation of the Expropriated Bank, we have decided to move the mobilisation to the coming week, next Tuesday the 1st of June, at 20h at Placa Diamant. These days of struggle, of resistance, of dignity in front of the brutality with which the police is defending the interests of the speculants, trying to abuse this space that is constructed for the neighbourhood, we feel the imprisoned comrade closer than ever. We know that she would be one more among many defending the Expropriated Bank with every means in the streets of Gracia, where she herself has lived for many years.

We do not know whether the comrade is responsible for the robbery that they ascribe to her, what we do know is that expropriation in the capital of the bank, whether it is in the form of money or buildings, will always be ethically just and politically legitimate. Which is why we send from here a call out to all the fighting people in solidarity of Barcelona and everywhere, to go out into the streets on the coming Tuesday 1st of June, to show that no matter how far they take her, our comrade will never be alone.

Rebellious and international solidarity with the two comrades accused of robbing banks in Germany!

Call out for extending the solidarity with the imprisoned comrade in Soto del Real, facing extradition

As many of you already know, the comrade who was imprisoned on the 13th of April, accused of having participated in the expropriation of a bank in the German city of Aachen could be extradited in the coming days. In the month that has passed since her imprisonment she has been locked up under isolation conditions in the Soto del Real prison in Madrid, but right now there are indications she could be handed over to the German authorities any moment.

Her extradition to Germany will imply creating a (even greater) distance between her and her loved ones, as well as forcing her into a penitentiary system that uses isolation extensively, making the communication of political prisoners (even more) difficult, toward the outside as well as with other prisoners.

Because of this we call out for mobilisation and struggle, a call out to not let this manoeuvre of collaboration between the European States against a fighting comrade happen without a response, showing that the attacks against her are also attacks against all of us that fight against the capitalist system and the misery it imposes with its logic.

From Barcelona we have called out for a manifestation on the day following the announcement of her extradition, and you would make us very happy by CALLING OUT FOR YOUR OWN MOBILISATIONS AND ACTIONS OF EVERY KIND IN YOUR VILLAGES AND CITIES, on the same day of the manifestation in Barcelona.

A few days ago, when we already took for granted the extradition of the comrade arrested on the 13th of April, we heard of the decision of the Spanish Audiencia Nacional to postpone by one month the handing over of her to the German State. This was a response to a demand made by our defence based on the process of marriage that the comrade was realising before she was arrested.

Precisely in the moment of hearing of the judicial decision, the comrade had been transferred to the women’s prison of Brieva (Ávila), from where we believed she would be prepared for her flight to Germany. Being there she managed to get this card to us, addressed to the outside, which we reproduce below. At the moment of writing the comrade is once again in the Soto del Real prison in Madrid, in isolation and sharing the yard with other prisoners, until at least the 30th of June, the date on which the extended period granted to enable the celebration of her wedding will end. Meanwhile, we call out to continue showing our solidarity with her in the streets, to show our support of all the imprisoned fighters, and our most profound contempt of the system that keeps them hostage to defend its miserable order.

Letter from the comrade:

Comrades, I write from the Brieva prison in Ávila, where they have just transferred me to after a month and a half in the Soto del Real prison in Madrid, always in FIES and isolation regime. I wanted to have written days ago, but all the communication and information is very slow and limited, and therefore I have not done it until now.

I deeply appreciate all the expressions and signs of solidarity and support. I have felt them so strong they transgressed the walls, the bars and the entire system of control and security. No matter how hard they try, they will never be able to break or brake our willpower and our decision to rebel against this world of complete misery in which they oblige us to live.

It is especially the more difficult conditions that give us more strength and determination to continue and sharpen the many fronts of combat we have, here inside as much as outside. The struggles for the liberation from every kind of oppression and authority are manifold, just like the just and legitimate methods and practices. From the simple negation of authority to the attack or the expropriation of a bank, there are many examples… The forever most important thing of the actions is that they can explain themselves and be understood for what they are; for their goals, finality and their value.

When the different struggles connect themselves in a wider context, they compliment and reinforce each other, and above everything break the division between the daily and personal with the political, since all the decisions we make in our personal lives end up being political, like the political decisions we take directly affect our personal lives. Although it is obvious we have to be careful with every step we take so as not to fall into the claws of the State and its servants, we know that struggling does not come for free, since the State and the media every time respond with more repression and a mediatic hunt toward all of us that face them.

For now I am here, but probably they will soon extradite me to Germany. I feel strong and alive, ready to face this situation and whatever is to come. More than anything proud of our ideas, our values and our anarchist practices and the life we choose now and that we continue to choose again every single day…

Strength and solidarity to everyone and to all the fighters, persecuted and imprisoned!

This site:

for the spreading of information, echoes of solidarity, rage and reflexions about the case of three anarchists accused of bank robbery by the prosecution of Aachen, Germany

THE VERDICTS

on the 7th of June 2017 the court of Aachen sentenced one anarchist comrade to 7.5 years of prison, while the other one was acquitted for a bank robbery that took place in 2014.
in december 2016 an other anarchist comrade was acquitted of a bank robbery in Aachen that took place in 2013.